Friday, April 8, 2016

New York Mets win their home opener over the Philadelphia Phillies

The New York Mets
defeated the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday afternoon.The game took place at Citi Field in
Flushing, New York and the final score was 7-2.Jacob deGrom started for the Mets and pitched well and so did the
bullpen.Neil Walker had two hits and
two RBI and Michael Conforto had two hits and three RBI to lead the
offense.

deGrom started
for the Mets and pitched six innings giving up five hits and a run with six
strikeouts.He picked up his first win
of the season.Jim Henderson pitched a
perfect inning with two strikeouts, Hansel Robles pitched 1/3 of an inning
giving up two hits and an unearned run and he struck out one and Jerry Blevins
pitched to two batters retiring them both.Antonio Bastardo pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out
two.

Jerad Eickhoff
started for the Phillies and took his first loss of the season.He pitched five innings giving up five hits
and three runs with two of them being earned.He walked two and struck out three.Dalier Hinojosa pitched to two batters retiring them both, Daniel Stumpf
pitched to one batter and retired him and James Russell pitched 1/3 of an
inning giving up three hits and four runs with two walks.David Hernandez pitched 2/3 of an inning
giving up a hit and he struck out one and Hector Neris pitched a perfect inning
with a strikeout.

David Wright had
a hit and drew a walk, Yoenis Cespedes had a hit and Lucas Duda had a hit and
drew two walks.Walker had two hits and
two RBI, Conforto had two hits and three RBI and Asdrubal Cabrera had a
hit.Travis d'Arnaud had a hit, an RBI
and drew a walk, deGrom had an RBI and Wright, Duda and Conforto each hit a
double.The Mets were 4-14 with runners
in scoring position and left eight men on base.Wright committed an error.

Freddy Galvis had
a hit, Cesar Hernandez had two hits and an RBI and Odubel Herrera had a hit and
an RBI.Darin Ruf had a hit, Andres
Blanco had a hit and Cedric Hunter had a hit.Eickoff had a hit and it was a double.The Phillies were 2-6 with runners in scoring position and left five men
on base.C. Hernandez was caught stealing
and Galvis committed an error.

In the second
deGrom hit an RBI groundout to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.In the sixth Herrera hit an RBI single to tie
the game at one.In the bottom of the
sixth Walker hit an RBI single to give the Mets a 2-1 lead and Conforto hit an
RBI double to make it 3-1.In the bottom
of the seventh Walker hit an RBI single making it 4-1 Mets.Conforto hit a two run single and d'Arnaud
hit an RBI single still in the seventh and it was 7-1 Mets.In the eighth C. Hernandez hit an RBI single
to cut the lead to 7-2 and that would be the final score.

The Mets are now
2-1 on the season and the Phillies are still searching for their first win at
0-4.The two teams will play game two of
three on Saturday night.

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